App Store filling up with spammers and clones of popular apps

What I'd like to see on the App Store as a possible solution would be a sort of "Flag this application" function, where you could also input a reason why you thought the application was inappropriate. Or maybe they should just toss out everything that gets less than one star or something. Sorting the wheat from the chaff in there is getting to be a major undertaking.

Thank heavens there's sites like this one where you can read decent reviews of apps before parting with your cash.

I have a problem with the Kindle with this kind of thing; if (when on your Kindle) you go to the bookstore, then go to the subcategory "science fiction"; after a few known books you'll get five pages of various editions of H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau".

As far as the quality/quantity thing goes in the App Store, I give you this quote from Philip J. Fry, when talking to Nimoy in FUTURAMA:

"C'mon, you know, STAR TREK -- 79 episodes, maybe a dozen good ones?"

I don't actually mind the cheat apps for what they are, but I hate that they're thrown in with all the actual games. If Apple is going to continue approving these apps for sale, then they need their own category. I hate having to look through them all when looking for an actual game I'm interested in, like Angry Birds for instance.

It's pretty rubbish if it's true that Apple will take action only in cases of "infringing on trademarks". How many small games developers go to the expense of trademarking all the different aspects of their app that could be copied? This means only the big developers will get any help from Apple if true. They should play fair to everyone and act on obvious rip-offs whether or not it's trademarked.

AppStore scamming has been going on for months, from cloned apps to fake reviews, and although Apple did take action against Molinker (see http://bit.ly/8xwKIa), it wasn't long before they reformed under several different company names and flooded their same apps back in to the AppStore. Unless Apple take decisive action against these companies, I'm afraid this is something we the consumer will have to live with, and we will just have to check and double check that the app we are buying is the one we want, and worth the money.

Just goes to show that Apples stance against flash has nothing to do with quality as there are currently far better apps written in Flash on the app store than this rubbish

Well, we all complained about Apple's lengthy yet stringent approval process, and they bent to make everyone happy. Well know you can't have your cake and eat it too.

I hope Apple does something about it, considering how hard they make it for legitimate apps to get published. The flip side of that strictness has to be that they remove apps that serve no purpose but to be a nuisance.

Well, I've seen games that have Nintendo's mario character (in particular it was a geo-tagging game where you have Mario's likeness and other people have turtles or goombas, something to that effect). I'm surprised there aren't more lawsuits about this sort of thing.

How did these get in the store in the first place? App store reviewers are deliberately letting these apps through the approval process???